LayoutShift: lastInputTime property

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The lastInputTime read-only property of the LayoutShift interface returns the time of the most recent excluding input or 0 if no excluding input has occurred.

Layout shifts are only bad if the user wasn't expecting them. Layout shift metrics like CLS exclude shifts that occurred soon after certain user interactions. These interactions are called excluding inputs. Excluding inputs are:

The mousemove and pointermove events are not excluding inputs.

Value

A DOMHighResTimeStamp indicating the most recent excluding input time or 0 if no excluding input has occurred.

Examples

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Logging last input times

Log excluding input times if excluding input has occurred.

js
const observer = new PerformanceObserver((list) => {
  list.getEntries().forEach((entry) => {
    if (entry.lastInputTime) {
      console.log(entry.lastInputTime);
    }
  });
});

observer.observe({ type: "layout-shift", buffered: true });

Specifications

See also